This isn’t exactly complete, but I hope to finish it one day soon. As in, maybe before the end of 2015?

42. 

    Sweet Disarray

    Dan Croll

    Capitol

    Choice Cuts:

41. 

    Sukierae

    Tweedy

    Anti-

    Choice Cuts:

40. 

    Awake

    Tycho

    Ghostly International

    Choice Cuts:

39. 

    Work and Love

    Elliott Brood

    Paper Bag

    Choice Cuts:

38. 

    Owl John

    Owl John

    Atlantic

    Choice Cuts: “Red Hand”

37. 

    No Fools, No Fun

    Puss N Boots

    Blue Note

    Choice Cuts:

36. 

    Cosmos

    Yellow Ostrich

    Barsuk

    Choice Cuts:

35. 

    White Women

    Chromeo

    Label

    Choice Cuts:

34. 

    Benji

    Sun Kil Moon

    Caldo Verde

    Choice Cuts:

33. 

    Heza

    Generationals

    Polyvinyl

    Choice Cuts:

32. 

    Lazzaretto

    Jack White

    Third Man

    Choice Cuts:

31. 

    Burn Your Fire for No Witness

    Angel Olsen

    Jagjaguwar

    Choice Cuts:

30. 

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Big Machine

    Choice Cuts: “Shake It Off”, “Bad Blood”

29. 

    So It Is With Us

    Horse Feathers

    Kill Rock Stars

    Choice Cuts:

28. 

    Heal

    Strand of Oaks

    Dead Oceans

    Choice Cuts:

27. 

    Ryan Adams

    Ryan Adams

    Pax Am

    Choice Cuts:

26. 

    Way Out Weather

    Steve Gunn

    Secretly Canadian

    Choice Cuts:

25. 

    Alvvays

    Alvvays

    Polyvinyl

    Choice Cuts:

24. 

    Hypnotic Eye

    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

    Warner Bros.

    Choice Cuts:

23. 

    St. Vincent

    St. Vincent

    4AD

    Choice Cuts:

22. 

    Nicki Nack

    tUnE-yArDs

    4AD

    Choice Cuts:

21. 

    GIRL

    Pharrell Williams

    Columbia

    Choice Cuts: “Happy”, “Brand New”

21. 

    Xscape

    Michael Jackson

    Sony

    Choice Cuts:

20. 

    Sonic Highways

    Foo Fighters

    RCA

    Choice Cuts: “Congregration”, “The Feast and the Famine”

19. 

    Brill Bruisers

    The New Pornographers

    Label

    Choice Cuts:

18. 

    Lateness of Dancers

    Hiss Golden Messenger

    Merge

    Choice Cuts:

17. 

    Familiars

    The Antlers

    Anti-

    Choice Cuts: “Parade”, “Palace”

16. 

    All Kinds of You

    Ryley Walker

    Tompkins Square

    Choice Cuts:

15. 

    Atlas

    Real Estate

    Domino

    Choice Cuts:

14. 

    Lost in the Dream

    The War on Drugs

    Secretly Canadian

    Choice Cuts:

13. 

    The Take Off and Landing of Everything

    Elbow

    V2

    Choice Cuts:

12. 

    Blue Sunshine

    U.S. Royalty

    self-released

    Choice Cuts:

11. 

    The Voyager

    Jenny Lewis

    Warner Bros.

    Choice Cuts:

10. 

    Seeds

    TV on the Radio

    Harvest

    Choice Cuts:

9. 

   Sylvan Esso

   Sylvan Esso

   Partisan

   Choice Cuts:

8. 

   Stay Gold

   First Aid Kit

   Columbia

   Choice Cuts:

7. 

   Black Hours

   Hamilton Leithauser

   Ribbon Music

   Choice Cuts:

6. 

   They Want My Soul

   Spoon

   Merge

   Choice Cuts: “Do You”, “Inside Out”

5. 

   Black Messiah

   D’Angelo

   Label

   Choice Cuts:

4. 

   Morning Phase

   Beck

   Columbia

   Choice Cuts:

3. 

   Are We There

   Sharon Van Etten

   Jagjaguwar

   Choice Cuts:

2. 

   Tied to a Star

   J. Mascis

   Sub Pop

   Choice Cuts:

1. 

   Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Sun Deluxe

   Damien Jurado & Sisters of the Eternal Sun

   Label

   Choice Cuts: